Editing Robert Kilwardby (section)

==Life==
Kilwardby studied at the [[University of Paris]], then was a teacher of [[grammar]] and [[logic]] there. He then joined the [[Dominican Order]] and studied [[theology]],<ref name=Lawrence146>Lawrence "Thirteenth Century" ''English Church and the Papacy'' p. 146</ref> and became regent at [[Oxford University]] before 1261,<ref name=Thought288>Knowles ''Evolution of Medieval Thought'' p. 288</ref> probably by 1245.<ref name=Leff290>Leff ''Paris and Oxford Universities'' pp. 290–293</ref> He was named [[provincial superior|provincial]] [[Prior (ecclesiastical)|prior]] of the Dominicans for England in 1261,<ref name=BHOCant>Greenway ''[http://british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=33853 Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066-1300: Volume 2: Monastic Cathedrals (Northern and Southern Provinces): Canterbury: Archbishops]''</ref> and in October 1272 [[Pope Gregory X]] appointed him as [[Archbishop of Canterbury]] to end a dispute over the election. Kilwardby was provided to the archbishopric on 11 October 1272, given the temporalities on 12 December 1272, and consecrated on 26 February 1273.<ref name=Handbook233>Fryde, et al. ''Handbook of British Chronology'' p. 233</ref>

Kilwardby crowned [[Edward I of England|Edward I]] and his wife [[Eleanor of Castile|Eleanor]] as king and queen of England in August 1274, but otherwise took little part in politics. He instead concentrated on his ecclesiastical duties, including charity to the poor and donating to the Dominicans.<ref name=Moorman371>Moorman ''Church Life'' p. 371</ref>

In 1278 [[Pope Nicholas III]] named Kilwardby [[Cardinal Bishop of Porto and Santa Rufina]].<ref name=Princes173>Bellenger and Fletcher ''Princes of the Church'' p. 173</ref> He then resigned Canterbury and left England,<ref name=Handbook233/> taking with him papers, registers and documents belonging to the see. He also left the see deep in debt again, after his predecessor had cleared the debt.<ref name=Moorman173>Moorman ''Church Life'', p. 173.</ref> While in theory this was a promotion, probably it was not, as the pope was unhappy with Kilwardby's support of efforts to resist the payment of papal revenues and with the lack of effort towards the reforms demanded at the [[Second Council of Lyon]] in 1274.<ref name=Edward249>Prestwich ''Edward I'' p. 249</ref>

He died in Italy in 1279, and was buried in the Dominican convent in [[Viterbo]].<ref name=Princes173/>